giallo fever

For fans of obscure European cinema and associated culture, the Bizarre Cinema archives series by Glittering Images are pretty much indispen...

This 1974 entry from producer-director Stanley Long examines the theme of prostitution through the ages via a series of vignettes that take ...

We begin with Bob and Sally, who are engaged to be married, going to their doctor. He reveals two shocking facts: Bob was previously tr...

Having collaborated with Prosperi and Jacopetti on Mondo Cane and Women of the World , Paolo Cavara here struck out on his own with another...

It’s impossible to approach this 1968 mondo film without reference to Africa Addio . This is because writer-director Stanis Nievo was produc...

Although the mondo film was, as its name suggests, an Italian invention, its pseudo-documentary exploitation format was one which was readil...

You can be forgiven for confusing this 1970 film with its 1969 predecessor A Thousand sins... no Virtues . For both are the products of the ...

As with the better-known Candy (1968) scripted by Terry Southern, this is an adaptation of Voltaire's Candide , although one that adher...

This was the debut film from Sergio Martino. Released in 1969, it was produced by his brother Luciano, with the pair going on to collaborate...

This is a DVD that I have somewhat mixed feelings about on account of its provenance. The British Film Institute has long been, after all, t...

As the title Mondo cane oggi indicates, this was an attempt to bring the mondo film up to date for the 1980s, representing as it did the f...

This 1969 film from trash favourite Al Brescia presents an interesting combination of mondo and “white coater” exploitation forms, apparentl...

When George Sanders committed suicide in 1972 he famously left the note “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived lo...

Co-directed by Luigi Scattini and Mino Loy, both experts in the form, this is a well-made example of the early 1960s mondo that largely lack...

You could be forgiven for getting confused here: the original Le Notti porno di mondo , also directed and edited by Bruno Mattei under his J...

Given Joe D'Amato's prodigious work-rate and his willingness to engage with just about any filone, it comes as little surprise that ...

Rocco is an aspiring Italian-born actor and screenwriter, resident in New York, who in the meantime performs whatever hustles he needs to to...

If watching exploitation films can sometimes be described as a kind of macho endurance test, akin to seeing who can order the hottest curry ...

This 1969 mondo is mainly known for one thing: it is the film which gave the world The Muppet Show theme, manha manha . It was written by P...